More than 60 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish fishing vessel off the Atlantic island of Cape Verde rescued a boat that set out a month ago.
More than 60 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish fishing vessel off the Atlantic island of Cape Verde rescued a boat thatwith more than 100 aboard, authorities and migrant advocates said Thursday.
Seven dead bodies were found on the boat, while an estimated 56 people are missing at sea and presumed dead, said International Organization for Migration spokesperson Safa Msehli. According to Senegal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 38 survivors were rescued earlier in the weekThe Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the vessel was a large fishing boat, called a pirogue, which had left Senegal on July 10.
Cheikh Awa Boye, president of the local fishermen’s association, said he has two nephews among the missing. “They wanted to go to Spain,” Boye said. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service confirmed that a Spanish fishing boat, the Zillarri, rescued 38 people and recovered seven bodies from a Senegalese pirogue Monday after spotting it adrift northeast of Cabo Verde. An executive with the tropical tuna fishing company Pevasa, which operates the Zillarri, said the survivors were asking for help and were in a “bad state.”
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